Marker-bar for planters.



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MARKER BAR F08 PLANTERS.

(Application filed May 2, 1002.)

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IVILLIAM I-I. GLOSSER, OF FORSYTI-I, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE L. JONES, OF EMERY, ILLINOIS.

MARKER-Blanton PLANTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 704,7 91, dated July 15, 1902.

Application tiled May 2,1902.

T all whom, it 172,601/ concern:

Beit known that LWILLIAM'H. GLossnR, of Forsyth, in the county of Macon and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and usef ul Improvement in Marker-Bars for Planters,

of which the following is a specification.

This invention refers to the marker-bars of' corn-planters; and the object is to provide improved means whereby the marker may be xo raised from one position preparatory to turning around at the ends of the field and laid down on the opposite side of the planter after the turns are made.

In the drawings forming part of this speci- 1 5 ication, Figure 1 is a rear elevation of so much of a planter-frame as isneeded to show the relation of my invention to the planter. Fig. 2 is a detail in rear elevation, showing the marker-bar raised. Fig. 3 is a detail in perzo spective ofthe lift-bar and the crank used to actuate the same. Fig. it is a detail in perspective of the lift-bar, the controlling-crank,

l and the bracket used to connect the appliance with the planter-frame. Fig. 5 is aV longitu- 2 5 dinal section through the sleeve of the attaching-bracket and through the hollow stein of the lift-bar. Fig. 6 is a cross-section on dotted line Xin Fig. 5.

The rear cross-barof a 3o shown at 1 iu Fig. 1.

At 2 is shown a bracket attached to the rear cross-bar of the planter-frame. A pivothead for the check-.row bar 4 is shown at 3, and such head is journaled in the bracket 2 and in the rear cross-bar of the planter-frame. The marker-bar et is'provided with a marker 5 of any desired construction. The lift-bar 6 is journaled in a sleeve 25 of bracket 2 below the pivot-head 3 of the marker-bar, and

4o its extended end rises above the marker-bar when the marker-bar is lowered on either side of the planter, as shown in Fig. 1. A rod 7 connects the extended end of lift-bar 6 with a bearing 8, secured on the marker-bar, near the outer end thereof. The lift-bar 6 has a bearing-stemv 6, which is recessed longitudiplanterframe is nally, as shown in Fig. 5, andprovided with a hole 6b iuits inner end. The recess in the bearing-stem of the lift-bar is prismatic in 5o cross-section, preferably square, and it is adapted to turn the square shaft 9 of crank 10 vices.

Serial No. 1045,702. (No model.)

l and permit such shaft to be adjusted length- ,and lower the marker-bar, and motion may be given to the crank by various mechanical de- In this instance a lever 13 is fulcrumed at 15 on a bracket 16, secured to a side bar of the planter-frame, and a link 12 connects the cranked end 11 of crank-bar 10 with the lower 6o end 14 of the lever.

W'th the particular shifting mechanism shown motion is transmitted to the crank-bar 10 through the lever by pulling the leverhandle toward the drivers seat. The crankbar 10 extends upwardly when the marker rests on one side of the planter, and it extends downwardly when the marker rests on the other side of the planter. Thelower end of the leveris in approximately horizontal 7o alinement with the pivot of the lift-bar, and the angle formed by the link 12 with the crank-bar when the marker-bar is lowered is the same when. the crank-bar extends down- Y Ward as when it extends upward and is approximately a right angle. As the handle of the lever is drawn toward the seat the crankbar swings upward or downward, as the case may be, and when the marker-bar is in avertical position the crank is in alinement with 8o the link 12, as shown in Fig. 2. The marker-bar is given sufficient momentuin in raising it to a vertical position to cause it to' swing past the vertical, and after the vertical is past the marker may be held raised 8 5 until the planter is in proper position and then lowered to a position on the side of the planter opposite that from which it was/raised. Suitable means may be provided for holding the lever in the position shown in Fig. 2 or 9o thereabout, and this feature is left to the choice of the user of the appliance.

The lift-bar 6 has its swinging end raised above the marker when the marker is lowered, and when motion is imparted to the'lift- 9 5 bar it is exerted through link 7 as an upward pull on the weighted end of the marker. As the marker-bar approaches the vertical the resistance of the Weighted end thereof to upward motion becomes gradually less and in a corroo responding ratio the slack in the lift-bar and link is taken up. The slack which gives the lift-bar its upward pull when the marker-bar is lowered results from the eccentricity of the pivots of the marker-bar and the lift-bar, respectively. The two pivots being in vertical alinement with the pivot of the lift-bar lower than the pivot of the marker-bar it is obvious that as' the two bars travel upward the slack will be taken up to an extent equal to the distance of the two pivots and that the lift-bar and link will assume vertical positions when the marker-bar is vertical.

To enable the appliance to be used on planters of different construction, the shaft 9 of the controlling-link 10 is made longitudinally adjustable, so as to get the bearing end 11 in dierent positions forward and back with relation to the planter-frame and to the .markerbar. The bracket 2 has a sleeve 2, in which the tubular stem 6a of the lift-bar journals and through which it extends. The inner end of the stem 6 has a hole 6b, as shown in Fig. 3, through which a set-screw may extend, and a collar 17 is set on the inner end of the stem back of the bracket and secured in place by a set-screw 18,which extends through hole 6b of the stem and engages the shaft 9 of the crank-bar. The collar holds the stem vin position on the sleeve of the bracket. The

set-screw holds the collar in place and it also engages the shaft 9 and holds said shaft in whatever position it is required to assume.

The proportions and shape of the various parts may be varied to any extent consistent with the terms of the claims hereinafter made, and I do not restrict myself to the precise details herein shown and described.

I claiml. A marker-bar pivotally connected with a planter-frame,a lift-bar pivotally connected with the planter-frame at a point below the pivot of the marker-bar and a link extending from the swinging end of the lift-frame to the marker-bar at a point near the weighted end thereof, the lift-bar and the link being sufficiently long to compensate for the lower position of the pivot of the lift-bar, so that the lift-bar and link will line up with the markerwith the bracket, a lift-bar having a tubular bearing-stem journaled in the bracket below the pivot of the marker-bar, a crank-bar extending into the tubular stem of the lift-bearing and adjustable lengthwise therein,means for rocking the crank to raise and lower the lift-bar and a link connecting the extended end of the lift-bar with the marker-bar, substantially as described.

3. In a marker-bar-lifting appliance, the combination of a bracket attached to a planter-frame and having a rearward extended sleeve, a lift-bar having a tubular bearingstem extended through and beyond the sleeve of the bracket, a crank-bar extended into the tubular stem of the lift-bar, a collar fitting on that part of the stem that projects beyond the bracket and a set-screw extending through the collar and the stem into engagement with the crank, substantially as described.

4. In a lifting appliance for marker-bars, the combination of a bracket secured to a planter-frame, a marker-bar pivotally connected with the bracket, a lift-bar pivoted in the bracket below the pivot of the markerbar, a link connecting th'e extended end of the lift-bar with the marker-bar, a crank connected with the lift-bar and extended at approximately right angles therewith, a lever fulcrumed to swing in a vertical plane toward and from the pivot of the lift-bar and a link connecting the lever with the crank of the lift-bar, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I sign my name in Ithe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM H. GLOSSER.

Witnesses:

W. J. DIcKINsoN, GEO. L. JONES. 

